Born in Marl, Germany, Karin Kneffel studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1981 and 1987, where she came under the tutelage of Johannes Brus, Norbert Tadeusz and Gerhard Richter.

Known for her flawlessly executed, seductively realist manner of painting, Kneffel typically focuses on everyday objects – fruit, domestic scenes, and animals – shown from unexpected view-points and angles. In portraying them in this way, the artist imbues these entities with an element of the uncanny, confounding the viewer’s expectations and causing them to question the nature of what they are seeing....